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Robert B. Shilkret

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Specialization:

Personality development; Abnormal psychology

Robert Shilkret's research deals with college students' development, including how they accomplish goals and overcome unconscious obstructions, and the relations between earlier parenting experiences and college adjustment.

Shilkret, R. (2008, April 16). Can architecture cure? [Review of the book The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States]. PsychCRITIQUES – Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53, (No. 16), Article 2. Retrieved April 16, 2008, from the PsychCRITIQUES database.

Weiss, Y.; & Shilkret, R. (2004). The importance of the peer group in the Israeli kibbutz for adult attachment style. Smith College Studies in Social Work. A version presented at the 2005 biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta, GA.

Shilkret, R. (2008, April 16). Can architecture cure? [Review of the book The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 53 (No. 16), Article 2. Retrieved April 16, 2008, from the PsycCRITIQUES database.

Shilkret, R. (2008). [Review of the book Freud’s wizard: Ernest Jones and the transformation of psychoanalysis]. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44, 366-367.Shilkret, R. (2005). Review of S. Noll and J. W. Trent, Jr. (eds.) "Mental retardation in America: A historical reader." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79, 354-355.

Anderson, E., & Shilkret, R. (2004, March). "A new measure and conception of resilience for college students." Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.

Morray, M. G., & Shilkret, R. (2002, April). "'Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself!' Maternal intrusiveness, daughters' guilt and separation as related to college adjustment." Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.

Interests

My current work deals with college students’ development, including how they accomplish goals and overcome unconscious obstructions, and the relations between earlier parenting experiences and college adjustment.